Derek Chen
Member Of Technical Staff at Sundial
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Chen is an AI research engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building production-grade conversational agents and data-efficient dialogue systems. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Sundial, he leads ML research and engineering to create AI agents for data analysis and decision-making. He previously founded Soleda to produce opinionated, NLU-driven agents that ask clarifying questions and use deep reinforcement learning for action, reflecting his focus on interactive learning beyond prompt engineering. Derek’s published research in EMNLP and NAACL and hands-on work in data augmentation, few-shot learning, and noisy-label management show a strong blend of academic rigor and production impact. Comfortable spanning product, research, and engineering, he pairs enterprise experience with startup grit and a rare emphasis on scalable labeled-dialogue collection. Based in San Francisco, he brings a pragmatic, research-driven approach to making AI systems reliably useful in real-world workflows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of WashingtonB.S. Business Administration, B.S. Business Administration at University of California, BerkeleyNLP Research Computer Science, NLP Research Computer Science at Columbia UniversityFoundations of AI Computer Science, Foundations of AI Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (49)
player10
nlp8
python8
dialogue-systems8
natural-language-processing8
dialog8
machine-learning8
cython8
text-classification8
pytorch8
data-science7
artificial-intelligence7
named-entity-recognition7
language-processing7
tensorflow7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
derekchen14/task_oriented_dialog_agent
Oct 2017 - May 2019
Dialog agent for handling task oriented chat
Contributions:284 commits, 12 PRs, 211 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dialogagentchatdialogue-systemshandling
derekchen14/derekchen14.github.io
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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